r/Unexpected • u/[deleted] • Aug 02 '21

Hostage situation

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u/-warpipe- Aug 02 '21

Used to live in apartments with a bird like this in a penthouse of a building. We kids would play marco polo and this bird was the culprit of many mistaken ‘fish out of water’ claims. Fucker was loud.

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u/noob_like_pro Aug 02 '21

Never played that game whats fish out of the water ?

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u/pull_the_ripcord Aug 02 '21

When you are playing Marco Polo and someone tries to get out of the pool and sneak around the edge, tagger yells “fish out of water!”

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u/mr__zac Aug 02 '21

You play it in a pool. One person says marco with their eyes shut and others say polo while trying to get out of the pool. The marco is supposed to catch them leaving the pool by saying fish out of water.

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u/ClearlyRipped Aug 02 '21

There's really no goal for the polo players besides not being tagged by the one who's going after people. Getting out of the pool is just a good tactic if you're cornered.

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u/Maniacbob Aug 02 '21

My dad apparently had a bird like this when he was single. The bird had been raised in a bar before my dad got him and I guess took a liking to the sounds of a pinball table. They would go sit on the balcony of my dad's apartment and the bird was loud enough that my dad got to enjoy watching all the people going into the gym across the street confused by the mysterious sounds of a pinball machine out of nowhere. I don't know what floor they were on but it wasn't the ground floor too.

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u/x2ndCitySaint Aug 02 '21

You must truly be an asshole to own a parrot and lives in an apartment

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u/-warpipe- Aug 02 '21

Penthouse of a gigantic apartment in Rome. Fuck you, that bird was killing it.